Turn your heel; Turn your face
Chapter 1: The letter
Written by Jayrock1127
Ranma 1/2 created by Rumiko Takahashi
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It was a rainy night in a familiar town in America of San Antonio, Texas, but in that town was a building that looked to be a training facility for fighting. Inside was a young man,age 16, sitting down at the front of the desk,with a lamp on it, alone in the dark. He had dark brown hair with a sharp haircut and wavy hair combed to the left side, his skin was tanned all over his body, and his eyes were a glistening brown. Along with what he wore was a black long sleeve shirt matching his shoes and a pair of training pants that would best suit him. While sitting in the dark he was writing a letter. After he finished writing what he had then put it in a red envelope and sealed it off. He then called out to someone.
"Hey Dad you still here."
The man was big and fat but much resemblance to his son for his old age. He was wearing a brown jacket with a green shirt and khakis with brown matching shoes.
"yeah I'm just now getting ready to leave what is it?" He said so in a calm but curious voice.
"Along your way home can you drop this off at the post office for me." The son asked as he hands over the letter to his dad.
"Why can't you do it." The Dad replied.
"Don't you see what it looks like out there, you know what would happen to me if one drop touches me." The son said as he got serious.
The Dad then looked outside the window to see the pouring rain and he saw what his son was talking about so he responded to him. "Fine I'll do it I got nothing better to do."
The son then handed his dad over the letter and took it from him. He was now and about ready to leave, but he just had a couple of questions before he left. "I'm taking it that you won't come home tonight."
"Yeah I'm planning on crashing here for the night so I can get up as early as I can and get some training for a new technique I have been working on." The son explained.
The Dad then responded."Okay I'll leave you to it, but before I go who are you sending this letter to."
The son had a cold glaze at his father as he wrote this letter to someone personal that he doesn't want to talk about right in front of him. "Just an old friend letting him know I'll be in Nerima,Japan in a couple of weeks and he should be expecting me to drop in you know." He said with a smirk on his face hiding the real reason why he was going to Nerima.
The dad just nodded. "See you in the morning then." He then left the training facility as the son was left their alone with nothing, but silence.
The boy then went to a room a whole floor above the desk where in it was a locker with his stuff in it, a television, a window able to see the rain fall and a bed with sheets on it.
The boy just stood there in the room staring out to the window thinking to himself what has happened over the last couple of years as they filled him with anger and he said softly yet roughly. "Ranma Saotome after all these years we don't have to wait no more. No one will hold us back. Let's throw all the rules we follow out the window because I'll make you pay for what you have done and this time there will be a winner. Let's finish what we started fucker." Thunder then erupted and everything went to black.
Back in Nerima Ranma was walking along the fence with Akane to his side walking on the ground. They were heading off to the tendo dojo right after school to relax from all the insanity that's been going around but we know that won't ever happen when someone tried to strike ranma.
Ranma dodged the strike as he saw a bokken for a split second and immediately knew who it was.
"Dammit kuno what do you want." Ranma said angrily.
"Silence foul sorcerer I have come to break the spell to free akane tendo and the pigtail-girl from your foul spell." Kuno said heroically.
"Oh my gosh" replied both Akane and Ranma. "How many times do I have to tell you kuno I'm no wizard or sorcerer that you claim me to be." Ranma said even more angerly.
Kuno was now starting to get livid with ranma thinking he was telling a lie, but as soon as kuno was going to speak up he was cut off when a ribbon wrapped around him and pulled him back hard.
Kodachia then appeared in front of Ranma defending him saying to her brother "brother how many times do I have to tell you to leave Ranma darling alone he is mine." She said as she hugged against ranma's chest making him blush in an uncomfortable way.
"Kodachia can you please get off of me." Ranma said innocently as he was pushing her away from him.
Akane stared on as her anger grew watching Ranma being glomped like that.
Kuno now untangled himself from the ribbon and got up to see what was happening."How dare you cheat with Akane tendo with my sister...SAOTOME PREPARE TO UGHHHHHH..." As kuno was saying what he was saying he got glomped on the head by a bicycle with Shampoo on it.
"Nihao airen shampoo make too too good ramen for you this time." She said getting of her bike and bringing the bowl toward ranma.
What Shampoo saw next she only worried for her airen. "*gasp* What is too too crazy girl doing to airen."
"What are you talking about you amazonian stripper I'm only protecting what is rightfully mine." Kodachia said as hugging Ranma even tighter.
To make matters worse Shampoo was in a tug of war with Kodachia fighting for the love of Ranma.
Shampoo and Kodachia both spoke up saying there defense for ranma as Shampoo said. "Shampoo will free airen from crazy girl then we go on date yes."
Kodachia only made her trademark laugh as she said. "ohohohohohoho you think Ranma darling will go out with you; no he is a king and a king like him needs a queen like myself to be loved."
Ranma was trying to free himself, but he was overcomed with shyness he couldn't do anything to get himself out of the situation he was in.
Akane watched on as she muttered the word out her mouth. "Freaking pervert."
Just as things couldn't get any worse Mouse came out of nowhere throwing his daggers towards Ranma only to be avoided by him jumping out of the way.
"SAOTOME WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY SHAMPOO." Mouse said furiously.
"Shampoo is not your. Shampoo belongs to Ranma." Shampoo said as she hugged Ranma again even tighter
"SAOTOME I WILL FACE YOU IN COMBAT FOR THE LOVE OF SHAMPOO." Mouse said even angrier.
The pig-tailed martial artist just facepalmed with his free hand as he knew he has more on his plate to finish, he then looked on towards Mouse who had offer him a challenge.
Before either could get into a fighting stance a bokken was brought to mouses throat.
Kuno finally getting up from the bike accident heard the challenge and wouldn't allow that to happen.
"If anyone is going to slay that foul sourcerer it's going to be me who does so." Kuno said in another confident voice.
"Like hell you are I need to get Shampoo to love me and beat saotome and bring her back home with me." Mouse said redirecting his anger toward Kuno.
"Ahh as I see your problem as I also bare the same, but for more than one girl. I vouch to break all the spells that Saotome has put under every girl he met including Akane Tendo and the pigtail girl and I will defeat him in combat in order to do so." Responded kuno with his bokken still against mouses throat.
Mouse and Kuno stared each other down finding out who was going to face Ranma.
As all of that was going underway Ukyo was walking by and saw what was going on.
She only saw that Ranma was being man handled by Kodachia and Shampoo, Mouse and Kuno were fighting with each other and Akane standing there in anger of seeing what was happening.
What went through the okinomiyaki chef mind was trying to protect her fiancée from what was going on around him.
'Ranma is getting manhandled by those girls. I know I'll go help him out by bringing him to my restaurant and no one will disturb us. Just us alone.' Ukyo thought as she rushed towards Ranma grabbing him from behind.
Ranma was scared with what just happened now as he felt someone hugging him from behind."AHH WHO IS THAT."
"Well it's me sugar." Ukyo said in her cutest voice.
Ranma relaxed a little, but he still couldn't ignore the fact that three girls were on him trying to seduce him."Ahhh how can this get any worse?"
As soon as he said that out of pure luck ryoga popped out of nowhere. With his bad sense of direction what were the chances of him actually running into everyone like this.
Ryoga only saw what was going around the pig-tailed martial artist and akane standing there watching on. As he saw what was happening he immediately jumped to conclusion.
"RANMA... how dare you disrespect akane like this in front of her." Ryoga gave a angry stare at ranma.
Ranma the try to explain himself saying. "It's not what it looks like man and I can explain everything."
however before he could even do that it was too late as Ryoga jumped towards him ready to fight.
Ranma seeing this couldn't do anything because all three girls were grabbing him to tight to move.
But as ryoga was charging; his leg was wrapped up by a chain from Mouse.
"Mouse what the hell are you doing?" Ryoga asked quickly as he was laying on the ground.
"Back of the line I get first shot at Saotome." Mouse exclaimed.
"Nay have you listened to me at all I will be the one to slay saotome." Kuno budded into mention why he needs to fight Ranma.
"As if what gives you the right to fight Ranma first " Ayoga responded.
"And what gives you that right" Mouse added.
All three men were arguing over who was going to face Ranma explain there points to each other.
As this was going on Ranma,Kodachi, Shampoo,Ukyo, and Akane watched on as what was unfolding.
After a little bit of staring through the three young women were all over Ranma again tryingAkane watched her fiancée the three young women were jumping him again trying to get him to date one of them.
That was Akane's breaking point as she broke out her mallet and sent ranma flying saying furocious."RANMA NO BAKA PERVERT."
Ranma was sent flying for miles being thankful for that as he didn't want to deal with all of that insanity right now, but he ended up landing in a lake in a park triggering his transformation he was now a she. "Man it's going to be a long walk home" she said as she started to get out of the water and get back home.
Ranma got back home late at night still female and went to go and eat dinner. Dinner went fine with everyone in the household at the table as Kasumi and Nodako brought out the food. Everything went fine with no disruptions as everyone ate in peace.
Ranma then finished his day off by taking a bath turning back to male and going to sleep like a log as he had no school tommorow and was planning to sleep in for a little bit more than usual.
Couple days later
The last couple days went by fast and nothing much happening. It was a Sunday afternoon as Ranma was laying in the yard looking into the sky thinking about nothing and enjoying the piece and quiet he rarely ever gets. It was going fine until Akane hovered over him blocking his view.
"Huh... what is it that you want?" Ranma asked innocently.
"Kasumi asked me to give you these letters that were sent to you." Akane said as she handed him the letters and Ranma took them.
Ranm then proceeded to open them and read what these letters were about. When he skimmed over them though he felt very irritated. "ah dammit."
"What is it?" Akane asked trying to figure out why he sounded so mad for some reason.
Ranma then responded "These are challenge letters sent from Kuno,Mouse, and Ryoga. They say they all want to challenge me tomorrow don't these idiots know when to give up already."
"Well you are the one who has to answer any challenge you receive so there is no backing out if you don't want to fight them at all." Akane said.
Ranma then only then took in a deep sigh and he agreed with his fiancé. "Yeah I guess you are right, but I guess I might as well get to training to be ready for tomorrow."
"Well I'll leave you to that." Akane said as she left back into the house and went on with her own business.
Ranma then went into the dojo training for the challenges he had coming his way.
Ranma's training went by as it was dinner time and everyone was sitting down and eating. As for Ranma and Genma they were trying to steal each other's food as usual bringing on a show to the whole family. Dinner was going fine, but all Ranma could think about was challenges coming up soon.
In the middle of dinner Ranma had finished a bowl of rice and he asked for another bowl of rice from kasumi and she did so kindly.
As she finished filling up the bowl with rice she held the bowl in one hand and pulled out a red envelope from her apron. She then handed both items she had in her hand to Ranma.
Ranma had a confused look on his face on why Kasumi gave him a envelope as he didn't have a clue as to why she could've given it to him.
Kasumi saw the confusion on his face and she explained why she gave him the letter. "This came in for you after the other three letters you got. It's from America do you anyone from there?"
Ranma heard what Kasumi had asked and he suddenly remembered going to America on his training trip with Genma. He tried remembering if he ever met someone there, but it's been so long for him he couldn't think of anyone he knew from there. "Not that I can remember."
Ranma then looked down at the envelope to see where it was sent from. When he looked at where it was sent from it said San Antonio, TX in Japanese letters. And right below that were random letters that were probably initials for something that said 'A.O.O.A.' He then looked over the letter again and he noticed some writing that was written on strange place of the envelope that said 'I'm coming for you.' He didn't know what that meant so he just shrugged it off and open the letter to read while he was eating.
While reading it Ranma was starting to get confused on what the letter was about. There were harsh comments that he didn't know what they were about, some personal things that he didn't know how this person knew about him and from what he was reading it sounded like if someone has a personal vendetta against him. 'Oh boy here comes another challenge I guarantee it.' Ranma thought as he paused midway through the letter to think about what was to come next.
He then continued on to read until he reached the last sentence and ate a piece of rice and swallowed it.
'See you soon.
-Aiden Osprey'
After reading that last sentence Ranma started to choke on the rice he was eating. He then started hitting his own chest to force the food stuck in his throat out of him which he did successfully.
Everyone at the table was now looking at him as he was breathing hard from what just happened and only one person said something about it.
"What is wrong with you?" Nabiki asked.
Ranma didn't say nothing as he was now frozen in place and his whole world went dark around him. He could feel his blood running cold inside of him, but he showed no reaction.
Everyone saw how he was so Akane got up to go check if he was okay by waving her hand over his face only to get no response. "What is wrong with him?"
After a couple of seconds Ranma finally snapped out of his trance and everyone was just staring at him if he saw a ghost or something.
"What has gotten into you?" Nabiki askedonce again.
Ranma then looked down at the letter he had gotten and looked it over to see what he read was right. He reread the last sentence again and sure enough what he read was right the first time as he was now left fazed and he had lost his appetite by what he just read.
He then looked up back at everybody and answered Nabiki's question. "Nothing it's just a letter that I wasn't expecting to get."
"May I ask what was the letter about that you received?" Nodako asked politely.
When Nodako asked that Ranma didn't want to tell her so he kindly told her he wasn't going to say anything about it. "I can't say it's a private matter."
"oh I see." Nodako said understanding what Ranma received was only for him to read and him only.
Ranma then felt unease right now from what he read and he had a hard time taking in what he just read.
He then got his bowl and handed it towards Genma. "Hey pop you want the rest of my food." Without hesitation Genma took it within a flash.
Ranma then got up and left the room into the yard trying to process what just happened. "I need to grab some fresh air." He directed towards the family as he slid open the doors to the backyard and left.
Everyone just looked at him as he was leaving and felt odd that Ranma wouldn't want to finish his food. "That was weird." All three tendo sisters replied.
Nodako however felt something was off with her son because he would always finished his food and yet tonight he gave it up to Genma so easily. It made her wonder if it was what he read that made him this way and if it was what was that letter about.
As Ranma was walking through the yard he was thinking about who that letter was sent from. He couldn't believe it was from someone he hasn't seen in a long time and now he is coming for him. He had so many questions about this letter now, but the main one was how did he find him. Ranma didn't exactly know the answer to that, but he didn't care as he started to get hot flashes before him.
Ranma was dazed as he saw himself with his hair down all the way to his shoulders and he was wearing long black tight spandex pants and a black leather jacket with a black and white patch on it that had his name on it three times spelled differently. The first patch said Ranma S., the second one said Ranma O., and the last patch said Ranma W.
Not only that, but there was someone right next to him wearing the exact same thing with their patches saying Aiden O. and Aiden E. as he was leaning his arm on Ranma's shoulder.
He then went to another thought as he was standing in front with a man wearing a cowboy hat, a woman with blondish-brown hair and she was in a red and blue plad button up shirt, and right next to him was Aiden.
He then moved on from that as he saw a hand gesture with the ring finger, middle finger, and thumb were being pinched together while the pinky and index finger were pointing straight up.
After that he then was in a bedroom sitting on a stool next to a bed with a girl who was unconscious laying there. The girl had short loose blonde hair that went down to her neck and her skin was somewhat pale, but it mostly looked smooth.
Next after that Ranma saw himself looking at the ground while he was in tight leggings where half of one leg was red and the other leg was blue. He was on all fours and he was all beaten up with blood running from his mouth, bruises and pelts all over his body, and his back was all burned and bloodied up. When Ranma looked up he was met with a foot to his face and he came back to reality as he was still walking and he didn't even realize it.
When he came back to reality he stopped in front of a tree and he formed his hand into a fist. He could feel his hands getting tighter and tighter so much that his arm was starting to vibrate. He then clenched his teeth tightly as he now felt his dazed ness starting turn into anger. "THAT FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT." Ranma whispered roughly as he pulled back his fist and released against the tree right in front of him causing it to be knocked down in one blow.
Everyone who was in the dining room heard what had happened and they left to go see what was it about.
When they arrived at the scene they saw Ranma right in front of a broken down tree. When Ranma turned around he had the look of anger on his face.
No one has ever seen Ranma look like this before or done anything what he just did to the tree right now. Everyone didn't know what to do so they all thought the exact same thing and they would leave Ranma alone to calm himself down before they could figure out what to do.
Ranma then just walked away back into the house not saying a single word about what just happened.
After some time the silence was broken when Soun spoke up. "Oh well… I need to get rid of that old tree any ways, but still why did Ranma do this. " Soun asked worriedly.
"I do not know why my son has done what he has done, but for now let him be. I will try to talk to him about what happened tomorrow. For now it is getting late let us get some rest for the night." Nodako said.
Everyone nodded to what Nodako said and they went inside the house to get ready for bed.
'What has gotten into the boy.' genma thought as he was witnessing the tree that Ranma broke in half. He then ignored it and did what Nodako told and went inside the house.
It was now late in the night and everyone was asleep in the Tendo residence.
In the room the Saotome's were staying all three Saotome's were asleep.
Genma was in panda form as it was easier for him to sleep that way.
Nodako was peacefully asleep far away from her husband and near her son.
Ever since she had moved in with the Tendo's she has slept closer to her son more than her husband. Just wanting to be reunited with her baby is what she wanted and she wanted to be closer to him since she hasn't been there for him in the last 12 years.
However she was woken when she heard grunting in the room.
She opened her eyes to see what was the commotion and she looked around the room to see where the grunting was coming from.
When she located the source of where the noise was coming from she saw it was from Ranma.
Ranma was tossing around in his futon and he was all sweaty that his sheets were now starting to get soaked.
Nodako grew worried for her son because she thought something might be wrong with him. She couldn't stand to see him this way so she went to turn on the light to the room and then tried to wake him.
As she was trying to wake him Ranma was still tossing and grunting.
Ranma's dream: Flashback
In Ranma's dream he was in a dark void with a bright spotlight over him. There in the dark void Ranma was on all fours gasping for air as he was exhausted.
Ranma looked entirely different when he was in his dream. The first thing that you would notice something was his hair was untied and it was let down to his shoulders. Ranma was wearing a pair of tight leggings where half of one leg was red and the other half was blue along with some white boots that went up to half his calves. He wore no shirt with the attire though because he didn't need one. Without his shirt his body looked a little bigger than it does now with the muscles he has.
His body was covered in fresh red pelts and purple bruises.
While Ranma was on the ground he looked up in front of him.
There he saw someone the way he was. He was gasping for air, he was on all fours, and he was wearing the exact same thing Ranma was wearing.
"Aiden." Ranma said weakly as he was now starting to worry if Aiden was alright.
Ranma then looked over to his left and he saw two men in matching attires. The two men were wearing long black silk pants with black and white streamers at the end of the pants. Their pants had a design on it the stuck out a lot that said 'ELITE' in a white bordered box and white font.
The two men also looked similar as well as they both had the same body size, same long brown hair that went down to their shoulders, and same black bandannas.
He also noticed that those two men were both carrying something in their hands.
When Ranma was able to make out what he was seeing he saw that those two men were carrying a ladder on both sides of it.
They then started to rocking the ladder back and forth towards Aiden as they were going to launch it towards him.
Ranma then looked over at Aiden again and he saw he was defenseless and the two men were about to launch the ladder to him.
Ranma couldn't bare to see this happen to Aiden so without hesitation Ranma mustered himself as much as he could and he got on his feet and ran towards Aiden.
With every step Ranma took his body ached in pain, but he kept on pushing through to get to Aiden.
Just as Ranma was running the two men were now launching the ladder toward Aiden getting ready to hit him with it.
When Ranma got to Aiden he didn't have enough time to move both him and himself out of the way so quickly Ranma shoved Aiden out of the way.
After Ranma shoved Aiden he was then met with a whole lot of metal to his jaw from the ladder.
Ranma then woke and sat straight up in his futon yelling over what just happened.
Nodako was there by her son's side making sure he was okay. "Ranma are you okay?" She asked worriedly.
When Ranma woke he didn't respond immediately and he only satthere breathing heavily. He then felt that his jaw was numb and he couldn't feel a thing. It was until he started to rub his jaw that he would start to get feeling in it again.
He then moved his jaw on his own by pretending to bite something to see if he was okay. When he did that his jaw felt perfectly normal.
He then looked around the room and he saw that Nodako was right next to him.
"Ranma what happened?" Nodako asked.
Ranma then turned to face Nodako. "Nothing it was just a bad dream." He said as he was now starting to relax and control his breathing.
"What was it about that caused you to wake up?"
Ranma then turned his head away and hid his face from Nodako. "I don't want to talk about it."
"Why not?"
Ranma then didn't answer Nodako question and he only stayed quiet.
Nodako took notice to this about how her son has been acting and he has been different ever since dinner. She then got an idea as to why he might be acting this way and she decided to have a conversation about it right now. "Ever since dinner you have been acting differently than you usually do in a short period of time. And it all started when you got that letter. Is that because of what you read why you've been so different as of late?"
Ranma then looked over at Nodako and he knew that she was right. Ranma noticed the way he was acting as well after dinner last night and it was because of that letter. He then only nodded and didn't respond.
Nodako now knew what the main source as to why Ranma acted so different, but now she had to figure out what about it made him act different. "What was the letter you received about?"
Ranma then broke his silence and responded to Nodako. "I can't say it's a private matter."
Nodako remembered Ranma saying that at dinner, but she couldn't understand as to why it was so private that Ranma wouldn't say anything about it. "Why not?"
Ranma then went on to explain why he could not say anything. "Because when I got the letter it said I was not allowed to talk to anyone about what it was about because it's personal to the people that sent the letter to me. The people that sent me that letter know and trust me well. So I won't say anything because of how personal it is. Eventually you'll find out soon what that letter was about, but for now can you please wait."
Nodako understood why Ranma couldn't say anything now because of what he was being held up to. She didn't want to force him to reveal what that letter was about so she left it alone.
However she wondered about the people that Ranma mentioned about who they were and why they trusted Ranma so much. "Who are these people you are talking about and what is it that you did to make them trust you so much to send you such private information?"
Ranma then started to remember who the people were and he then explained himself. "The people that I know are a married couple. A couple of years ago while pop and I were separated they took me in when I was all alone. They helped me with a lot of stuff including with my martial arts. Then the same day they decided to teach me more of martial arts was also the day I got to meet their son. At first we didn't get along to well, but over time we gotta knew one another and we grew on each other. We were like brothers when we spend our time together and we got each other into new things. Eventually I started spending time so much with this family that they considered me a second son to them. Ever since pop found me and he took me back with him on our trip I haven't talk to them since then. I don't know how they find me, but I'm going to do all I can to find out."
Nodako now had a good idea of what kind of people her son was talking about and she saw why they could trust Ranma so much if what he said is true. "What were their names?"
"That is one of the things I cannot talk about sorry."
Nodako only nodded in understanding.
The thing that stuck out to Nodako though was how Ranma mentioned he meet someone he would consider a brother. "At least answer me this. You said you meet someone you considered a brother. What was he like to make you think of him as such?"
Ranma then went over Nodako's question and his mind flustered with anger.
Realizing his emotions very quickly though he calmed down as best as he can and answered her question. "He was like a brother to me because we had so much in common. I cared a lot for the guy, but that was until he was gone to me." Ranma said with a mixture of both anger and depression.
Nodako realized the tone in Ranma's voiceand she thought he needed to be alone for a bit and work things out so she decided to end their conversation there. "I now understand my son. Now please it is time to get up and start our day." Nodako said as she proceeded to get up and leave the room.
Ranma nodded to what she said and he went over to Genma to wake him up.
Hey guys and here is the new story that I was talking about. I wanted to do a redux of my older story of "Ranma's secret past" because I feel that one was not to well written with the poor grammar and plot. I then decided to redo this story because I have ideas that fit into this story better than I originally had planned. I also feel the title of the story fits it much better because of the context this story is going to provide. Anyways I'm going to be posting this story until I get back to where I left off on "Ranma's secret past" and then I'll go back to writing some of the other stuff. Until then I'll see you guys in the next chapter.
P.S.
For anyone who read "Ranma's secret past" you will know what this story is going to be about it's just a redux. If you are a new reader then I suggest reading that story if you want to know what going on in this one. "Ranma's secret past" is now dead the newest chapter will now be posted on this story.